First flight Airbus A380

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 28 Apr 2005, 17:46

Actually, 6dB difference means 8 times as loud...

Actually, 6db difference means less than 4 times as loud...

@ cj_chan:
Welcome to the forum. Indeed, China Southern has officially ordered 5 A380 recently during our prime minister visit to China.

Regards

Seb.

Post by **Bottie** » 28 Apr 2005, 17:53

Nice from Boeing:

http://www.boeing.com/randy/

vivek0072 · Post by **vivek0072** » 28 Apr 2005, 18:35

http://www.asia-image.com/index.php

SIA A30 tail attachment.

Post by **Kapitein** » 28 Apr 2005, 20:11

Here are some of the photos that I made yesterday in TLS:

Airborne

Flyby

rollout

orderbook

frontview

back to the factory

happy captain

impression

Post by **luchtzak** » 28 Apr 2005, 20:19

Great shots Brubiac!

liebensd · Post by **liebensd** » 28 Apr 2005, 20:21

Great pics BruBiac, thanks for sharing.

Greetz,

Dave

William · Post by **William** » 28 Apr 2005, 20:49

Great shots indeed Brubiac ... I must have been a wonderfull feeling to witness such an historical event ?!

By the way ... does someone knows how long it takes to build one A380 ?
I saw they already started building Singapore's first A380, isn't it going to be ready before the end of the testflights ?

wImPiE-D · Post by **wImPiE-D** » 28 Apr 2005, 22:37

A380 overview...

http://jonrb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/A380.jpg

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 28 Apr 2005, 22:56

Very nice shots Brubiac thanks for sharing.

Chris

Post by **Kapitein** » 29 Apr 2005, 08:35

Thanks for the reactions,

it was indeed a very speciale feeling when I saw the lift off. All the people screeming and applausing, it gave me goosebumps...

The same feeling with the flyby and the landing, everyone went crazy.

Post by **sn26567** » 29 Apr 2005, 10:18

Hi Brubiac, it seems you had an exceptional viewpoint for making such excellent pictures. Where were you sitting? In the VIP stand?

Post by **Kapitein** » 29 Apr 2005, 12:01

sn26567 wrote:Hi Brubiac, it seems you had an exceptional viewpoint for making such excellent pictures. Where were you sitting? In the VIP stand?

No, I was standing outside the fence. In the morning the VIP's had the sun in front of them. If you look at the picture of Sam Chui on Airliners.net, you can see what I mean. The people outside the airport had a much better view and sunlight on the airplane. The best view that the VIP's had was with the landing straight in front of them.

With the flyby/landing/rollout I was standing at a hill just outside the Airbusfacilities where you have a excellent view over the airport.

V-Bird · Post by **V-Bird** » 29 Apr 2005, 17:27

Also Boeing congrats airbus in this press release ( dutch only )

© ANP / Reuters
© Luchtvaartnieuws

http://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/news/?ID=8299